Hi Peta,
As long as you are doing everything in the iPhoto Application you are
fine. You can rename, batch change the name of a group of photos, edit
photos, place them into albums etc. iPhoto will always keep the
original that you can revert back to at any time.
My comment ""Moving things, renaming things...." is referring to the
'iPhoto Library' in your Home > Pictures - iPhoto Library, NOT Library
in the iPhoto Application.
Don't touch or move anything in the 'iPhoto Library' in your Home >
Pictures folder!
Do all your work in the iPhoto Application itself and you won't have
problems.
NEVER touch or move anything in the iPhoto Library in your Home >
Pictures folder.
My original comments were:
"This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER touch
anything in the "iPhoto Library", do everything in iPhoto application,
then the originals are protected.
Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in the
iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application.
iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder.
Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will
prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose
your photos."
I hope this has cleared things up for you.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 06/11/2009, at 9:41 AM, peta belczowski wrote:
Hullo Ronni
I have been stewing on your reply to my query on October 26, and
Eugene's later reply to my query re "reverting to original"
situations.
I have experimented with this successfully; however, your comment
about "Moving things, renaming things...." has been bothering me.
When I receive photos to place into iPhoto they come from various
sources, i.e. someone may email them to me, or they come from a USB
stick, or they may be scanned in. Some of these photos are very old
and there is no clue as to the true date the photo was taken. The
Mac of course gives them the date that they were placed into iPhoto
(not of course photos from a digital camera where we can always
obtain the true date). Sometimes I wish to place these photos into
a relevant Family Tree folder, or e.g., "2008 Christmas" folder.
Then, in order to use the excellent Search button in iPhoto I like
to show the names of the people in the photo.
Some photos just show "Img 24" and have not been named, obviously
originally from a digital camera, or scanner. Sometimes the person
who has given me the photos has their own code for naming photos.
Sorry, I am rambling on - now, when I receive a photo as a single or
as a group, I re-name each photo with a code which is meaningful to
me, e.g. "Family Tree Smith 1931-ish Mum, Dad, Gran". Then of
course that or those photos are placed into the "Family Tree Smith"
folder.
Therefore, I assume that I have interfered with the "original" and
it may not be able to be "reverted", whether or not I have actually
modified the actual photo?
Thanks for any advice on this, I just wanted to absolutely clarify
this point.
Have a good day.
Peculiar weather!
Peta
On 26/10/2009, at 12:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Peta,
iPhoto never deletes the original. It always preserves it, treating
it like a film photographer minds his negative.
There is no way to remove the Original from iPhoto.
This facilitates the Photos - "Revert to Original" command in
iPhoto and the non-destructive editing feature.
This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER
touch anything in the "iPhoto Library", do everything in iPhoto
application, then the originals are protected.
Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in
the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application.
iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this
folder.
Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will
prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or
lose your photos.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 26/10/2009, at 12:31 PM, peta belczowski wrote:
Thank you so much Ronni
So simple, yet so amazing!
Peta
On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Peta,
In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the
Menu Bar and "Revert to Original".
Cheers,
Ronni
Cheers,
Ronni
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